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Scientists South Africans today revealed the clearest image ever taken of the center of the Milky Way occupied by a huge black hole, thanks to a new radio telescope called MeerKAT
. of the galaxy was an obvious goal: unique, visually striking and full of unexplained phenomena, but it is also notoriously difficult to be pictured with radio telescopes, "Fernando Camilo, chief scientist of the South African Observatory of Radioastronomy (SARAO)
The center of the Milky Way is 25 thousand light-years from Earth, behind the constellation Sagittarius and is permanently enveloped in clouds of gas and dust, which makes it invisible from our planet to normal telescopes.
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The image released today by the South African team covers an area of a thousand light-years by 500 light-years, with a clear region at its media point n corresponds to the center of the galaxy.
"Although they are the first days with the MeerKAT and there is a lot to be optimized, we decided to go there and we are amazed at the results," Camilo said. according to the text published by the project. SKA Africa, dedicated to the construction of radio telescopes.
The SKA in which registered the MeerKAT, is a project involving eleven countries: Germany, Australia, Canada, China, Holland, India, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa and Sweden
The goal is to build Australia and South Africa's largest radio telescope in the world, capable of capturing images with a resolution 50 higher than those of Hubble, which constitutes one of the greatest scientific and technological challenges of history.
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MeerKAT whose construction lasted a decade and is one of the forerunners of the SKA, was officially inaugurated today during the year. a ceremony in the presence of Vice President of South Africa, David Mabuza, and the semi-arid region of Karoo. the province of North Cape (northwest)
It is currently the most powerful telescope in the southern hemisphere of the planet and has 64 satellite dishes each 13.5 meters in diameter .
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